{"id":238051,"date":"2019-06-21T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=238051"},"modified":"2019-06-21T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:29:44","slug":"rival-tourism-bodies-to-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/06\/21\/rival-tourism-bodies-to-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rival Tourism Bodies To Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_237318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237318\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homan200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237318\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homan200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homan200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homan200-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Southern Qld Country Tourism CEO Peter Homan<BR> (Photo: Outback Queensland)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>June 21, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a fortnight after a new CEO was named to take the reins at Southern Queensland Country Tourism, it appears the rift with a rival tourism body may be over.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Homan, the former CEO of Outback Queensland Tourism Association, was named on June 7 as the replacement for outgoing CEO Mary Clare-Power.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to take up his position on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>It now seems likely he will be taking over an organisation which will have just merged with a local rival, Tourism Darling Downs.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2017, Wellcamp Airport owner John Wagner formed the breakaway Tourism Darling Downs (Visit Darling Downs) after a falling out with SCQT earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Mr Wagner slammed SQCT in the media as an \u201cabsolute joke\u201d and a \u201cdisgrace\u201d, and suggested taxpayers\u2019 and ratepayers\u2019 dollars were not being spent wisely in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However, he told the media on Friday that negotiations to bring the organisations together had now been completed and he believed a merged group could be operating as early as July 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SQCT chair Associate Professor Jane Summers welcomed the move, saying it would create &#8220;a powerful and unified voice&#8221; for the region&#8217;s tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>South Burnett Regional Council left SQCT in August 2017 amid concerns the region derived little value from its $60,000 annual commitment to the organisation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/06\/07\/new-ceo-appointed-to-tourism-group\/\">New CEO Appointed To Tourism Group<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/05\/24\/new-ceo-to-head-sqct\/\">New CEO To Head SQCT<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/06\/tourism-ceo-to-quit-in-june\/\">Tourism CEO To Quit In June<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/08\/16\/council-pulls-plug-on-tourism-board\/\">Council Pulls Plug On Tourism Board<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/05\/29\/local-voice-on-breakaway-tourism-group\/\">Local Voice On Breakaway Tourism Group<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a fortnight after a new CEO was named to take the reins at Southern Queensland Country Tourism, it appears the rift with a rival tourism body may be over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":237319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1130],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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